The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-17

mob the management if the popular little catcher
was pat upon the market
Joe Quest is playing second base for anna
teur team in Detroit. but it is thought ne may
sign this week with St Paul
Seery's mother died at Waltham, Mass, Mon
day laot Her body is to be buried at Elgin'
Ill. Seery will rejoin the club Monday next
Jerry Denny played a great game OF ball yes
terday. Some of his stops were little short OF
miraculous and he handled the bat with vieor
too.
movement is on foot to have Umpire Vaien-
tine removed from the Association. The clubs
given out as opposed to him are Cleveland
Brooklyn and Louisville.
Latham was fined s25 by Won der Abe at Phil
adelphia for Sinking ground hit Robinson
also taxed $40 for allowing himself to De
thrown out a. third base.
Manager Thomas says all the Indianapolis
players need now is encouragement from the
newspapers and the people- They are very SEN
sitive to criticism, and that with repeated fail
ures had done much to discourage them. he
thinks the turning point has been reached
Glasscock's work at short unusually good
even for him. He made catch of short fly to
left. and a stop that no other shortstop Ia the
country would have made. Bassett also did ex-
cellently. His error, the only one OF the game,
WAS made in attempting to execute difficult
double. and was entirely excusable.
Maui is a Philadelphia boy Two years ago he
played with the Atlantic City club and last year
he at Rochester. Manager Bancroft re-
leased him for doing poor work. This year he
turned mp at Nashville. and his work has been
the most effective OF any of the Southern League
pitchers. He is youngster yet in his teens.
and has troublesome left-hand delivery. 1t IS
said that Reach paid SO, 500 for him.
The fine against Kirby was imposed on account
of inefficient playing, and not for tarrying too
long at the beer counter. Manager Thomas can
find no one who saw Kirby under the influence
of liquor. In fact, Indianapolis has what she has
never had before. ball players who believe in So
briefly. Several of them abstainers from
liquor of any kind. If Kirby's pitching continues
like that of yesterday the directors will no doubt
remit the fine
The Washingtons are bewitched by feminine
spectator, who is neither young nor handsome.
Her features are masculine. and she always oc-
cupies seat directly in the rear of the report
ers, in the upper tier of the grand stand. and is
terms of familiarity with all the regular rec
ord noters During the progress of a game she
can give more pointers on scoring than Chad
WICK, the veteran, and can size up players
ability on sight.
comparison of the work done by the eague
and American Association to June l, made by
the Sporting Times, shows that the finest field
ing has been done by the League teams ST.
Louis which leads the Association. played thirty
eight games, had total of j, $50 chances, while
Detroit had total of /. 436 chances in thirty
games. The total record of the two organiza-
tions show general fielding average of .909 for
the League and .908 for the Association.
Helen Dauvray, actress who is advertising
herself at the expense of a pretended fondness
for base ball, thinks coaching is not legitimate
ball playing. and the sooner it is aboi shed the
better it will be for this most invigorating of
sports. There is a certain charm in the nation
al game she says, "that holds spell bound.
and the more you see of it the more enthusiastic
you become; yet such exhibitions as / have wit
messed on these grounds by the ST. Louis players
will far toward deprlving it Of all its beauties
and reduce it to such state of barbarism that
respectable people will feel ashamed to mention,
let alone attend. the games" The St Louis
Post Dispatch remarks that il Miss Dauvray
knows little about baseball as she does
about English grammar, her opinion is not worth
much.